Jonathan Dekel Chen: 2 books
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration...
Farming the Red Land
Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the remarkable...